Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 123
oughthe main supply-pipe until itreaches the return-pipe, downwhich it descends until itreaches the connecting-pipeof eaeh radiator whose valveis open. After circulatingthrough the same, and part-ing with its heat, it is con-densed, and the resultant water flows through the outlet or drip-pipe into… … HEATING BY STEAM AND HOT WATER. 113 The general arrangement of piping will be understood from Fig. 2317. The supply-pipe is led asshown to any convenient point near the highest radiator, from which point the supply becomes also thereturn, to which the radiators are connected with a single valve,…
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